Bill Text: CA AB57 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Agricultural conservation easements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - Died at Desk. [AB57 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB57-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 57	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Yamada

                        JANUARY 7, 2013

   An act to amend Section 10262 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to agricultural conservation easements.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 57, as introduced, Yamada. Agricultural conservation easements.

   Existing law, the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act,
prescribes procedures for the establishment of agricultural
conservation easements intended to preserve and protect certain
agricultural lands in the state. Existing law specifies that an
agricultural conservation easement shall not prevent, among other
things, the granting of leases, assignments, or other conveyances, or
the issuing of permits, licenses, or other authorization, for the
exploration, development, storage, or removal of oil and gas by the
owner of the subject land, or for the development of related
facilities or for the conduct of incidental activities, as long as
the agricultural productivity of the subject land and any multiple
uses that made the acquisition a priority for selection under the
agricultural conservation easement program, are not thereby
significantly impaired.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10262 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   10262.  An agricultural conservation easement shall not prevent
any of the following:
   (a) The granting of leases, assignments, or other conveyances, or
the issuing of permits, licenses, or other authorization, for the
exploration, development, storage, or removal of oil and gas by the
owner of the subject land, or for the development of related
facilities or for the conduct of incidental activities,  as
long as   provided that  the agricultural
productivity of the subject land and any multiple uses that made the
acquisition a priority for selection under the program, are not
thereby significantly impaired.
   (b) The granting of rights-of-way by the owner of the subject land
in and through the land for the installation, transportation, or use
of water, sewage, electric, telephone, gas, oil, or oil products
lines, stock water development and storage, energy generation, and
fencing, provided that the agricultural productivity of the land and
any multiple uses that made the acquisition a priority for selection
under the program, are not significantly impaired by those
activities.
   (c) The construction and use of structures on the subject land
that are necessary for agricultural production and marketing,
including, but not limited to, barns, shops, packing sheds, cooling
facilities, greenhouses, roadside marketing stands, stock water
development and storage, energy generation, and fencing, provided
that the agricultural productivity of the land and any multiple uses
that made the acquisition a priority for selection under the program,
are not significantly impaired by those activities.
   (d) Customary part time or off season rural enterprises or
activities, including, but not limited to, hunting and fishing,
wildlife habitat improvement, predator control, timber harvesting,
and firewood production, provided that the agricultural productivity
of the land and any multiple uses that made the acquisition a
priority for selection under the program, are not significantly
impaired by those activities.